HOMELAND HOSPITALITY.

Evening Star, Issue 14634, 2 August 1911, Page 3

HOMELAND HOSPITALITY.

- NEW ZEALAXDERS' SOCIAL ROUND. FETES AXD GABDEN rABITES. [Br Our Ladst CoanEsroNDEKT.^ LONDON, Juno 23. —At the Colonial 'institute,.— To rind New Zealanders at any of the many Coronation festivities to which they are invited is like trying to lind a needle in the proverbial haystack. It would be a matter of great difficulty to find one's host and hostess five minutes after they have left their'places, so great is the crush of quests at everything that Uikfes place! On Friday evening last the Royal Colonial Institute gave it's annual conversazione at tho .Natural History Museum, in South ! Kensington, and a steady stream of Ljue^ts i ponred through its learned portals all the I oveaiiu. The council received them in I a specially made bower of ferns, palms, I and flowers that, took away a little from j the t.-iiifying aspect of elephants, giraffes, and otiier mammoth forest clenizriis that ; fleeted us on our entrance. The museum : i.-, at the same time, an interesting and : beautiful phii-e of entertainment, and tho j scene on Friday, watched from the first t LMllery, was both unique and brilliant. ! The band of the Royai Marines, in vivid uniforms of scarlet, played on a raised ' platform tinder the lee of an eltphajit and i the eyes of other great beasts; and a long j and tightly wedjjed-in procession of gaily I attired people from all parts of the world j wended their way past specimens weird '. and unlovely and into the west wing of the . shell gallery, where excellent vocal and. ' instrumental music was rendered ; or into ' the bird -dlerv, the east corridor. «r tho ■j refreshini t room at the top of the central ' staircase ai search of the good things pro- | vided. j Among the many New Zeahaiders pre- ! sent. 1 noticed Miss Kate ami Miss Fanny j Rattray, of Dunedin, the former in pale grey satin ; Professor Bickerton, of Christi church; Mrs .Johns, in emerald charmeuse, j with a tunic of black ninon and emerald i sequins; Miss Palliser, daughter of Mr 1 Wray Palliser. in peach-colored chiffon i taffetas embroidered with silver; Captain I Vereker Bindon, of Auckland ; Mrs Guy j Scholefield. Milton, - black charmeuse with ! a royal blue ninon scarf ; Miss Schalefield, ! pale grey; Mi.-s Ethel Batehdor, Dunedin, I shot ninon over deep cream silk ; Dr and Mrs Ferdinand Batehulor, Dunedin, the latter in black ninon over white silk: the Kev. Mr Hobinscn. late Archdeacon of j Dunedin .and Mrs Robinson, the latter in ! black silk with a scarf of heliotrope ; Mis j A. A. Finch, Dunedin, floral ninon; Miss i Finch, black silk; Miss 1). Finch, brown ; j Mrs Coiquhotui, Dunedin, mauve brocade ' gown and grey brocade opera cloak; Mrs j Chesii'y. widow of the Maori war veteran : j Mis Burt, Dnncdin, pale grey; i)i and ; Mrs Parkinson. Wellington : and Mrs ; J. Sutherland Ross, the latter in white j 1 harmei:--o with touches of black under a j untie of white, edged with black and I salmon pink; Mr and Miss Ely: Mr and I 'Mrs Bridge, etc. Other New Zealanders , were Colonel and Mrs Abliott (Auckland), ' Miss Davison. Dr E. Alexander, Miss j Anderson. Mr and Mrs J as. Hell and Miss ! .J. Pell (Rienheim), Mr and Mrs T. L. : V.v.ick iDannevirke). Mr and Mrs -F. -M. ' jfarker (Cisborne), Mi,-s Bickerton (Chrst- ' church), .Mi.-s Beetham (Masterton), Mr 1 M. Bethel. (Masterton). -Mr and Mrs David ! Crewe iWeUincton), Mr and Mrs J. C. j f:ii;'vtor. the Misses Chavtor (5), Mrs A. i if. Chavtor, Mr T. Cham'oerlio Chamberi iin (Dunedin) and Mr Paora Chamberliu, ! Mr, Mi>. and the Misses Moss-Davis ! (Auckland). Sir Anhtir Douglas, Professor ! and Mrs Coleridge Fair (Chrislchurch), : Major F. NelsoiTtUor-e, Jli and Mrs 11. ! J. Crav, Mrs Stratford Tlenniker, Mrs ! Haines'(Auckland), Mr and Mrs J. Kirker, ' Mr, Mrs, and Miss Mtchie- (Dunedin), Sir ! Montague and Lady Nelson. Mrs Haiokl I Nelson", Judge and" Mrs Jack.-on Palmer j (Wellington), Mr and Mrs .1. C. Pon.-onby I (Dunedin). Mr and Mrs Fleaton Rhodes j (Timaru). Mr and Mrs C. H. Rhodes (Timi arn). Sir William and Ladv Russell, Mr j A. 'E. t.. Rhodes it.'hristchurch), Lieat.colone! 11. Snow and Miss Lilian Snow (( hiistchuich), Mr C. (1. Tegctmeier, and Mr and Mrs H. B. Vogel. f:- ■ •'- —A"Day -'n't- Henley.— ; Through the thouditfulne.-s and energy ; of the Festival of Empire IFspitaluy ' Committee those New Zealanders who like to take ad van la ire of the entertainments : jirovidetl are having quito a royal time. Excursions to Scotland, Ireland, the ! Channel Islands, Oxford, and other places I <'! intorict have been arranged, aiivl various 1 sitiaiLer entcrta'umientv> tuch as garden J .pasties, etc. One of the most delightful 1 garden parties of the cca-on was given under the ai.'spieio of tiie Hospitality Comi iniuco on Saturday at the famous Phyllis I Court Club at Henley.- It is ;t palatial I white place, .-mothered with loses and j civpcis, and .-tending in truly beautiful I grounds. From the wide verandah in I trout of a great rose-coiortd reception room ; the guests could see be\ond d lightlul garI den». and sloping lawns the river at- one j of its prettiest points, and during the after- : noon, wlk-ti a tirst-ciass entertainment was ■ provided by actors, actresses, and dancers. ; rpeeially brought down from town, the I scene left nothing to he desired. Tho j ground.-, are guarded/by great oaks in pleni teous i-af. and there arc pergolas of ruses , :i 1 id wi::dirg gardens, now looking bcauI tiful. tennis and croquet giound.;, and walks , of almost fairy like loveliness, amid ferns, ; shrub.-, a nil loses, beside an arm of the i liver that enters the club grounds under ; a pietuiesque bridge, and on which graeej ful- swans glide 'slowly along, and com- : fiiriable houi-'-boats lie at anchor. What I mere eonhi mortal want'.' I owing to the fact thai, a weck- | end ('■•inpts them out into the country j these days, not- many New Zealanders were I present. I noticed Mr and Mrs Philip j Isaacs, of Dunedin, Captain Vereker BinI don, and Mr John Holmes. j —hi Begeul's Park.--j On Monday a garden party of an tinusu- j j aiiy elaborate de.vjription wa.- given by j j IdrK Fekstein. oi:c of Ixmdcn's popular I hcstcKEses. at the Royal Botanic Gardens, j in Regent's Park. Unfortunately, before it j came to an end the tain dc.-cended in angry torrents, and many of the light clad j gtiei-ts were thoroughly drenched before i they en old get out of the grounds to their I carnages. So great was the crush that a I long queue had to be formed at four ; o'clock outside the entrance, and for,two hours after that people weie antving. ! To the- men guests .burly policeintn arid ( dainty girls in white distributed, outside i the private entrance to the Gardens, patriotic buttonholes, and within the entrance lady, guests waxe given lovely spiuys of roses, gardenias, red carnations, and <ornilowers fastened in with little Union Jack puis. The gat dens were abla/.e with Hags and bunting all the colors of the rainbow. Mr and Mis Eckstein received their guests ■ in a tent near the. gate, the hostess wearI in,g an exquisite gown of .pale blue ninon [.embroidered with pink and blue wistaria [ over tin 'tinderdrccs of pale pink, and a I large hat trimmed with, wistaria. .Numbers I of celebrities in" music, tat. and literature, i ■ were there, and it is safe to say that every New Zealand'.r (and all whose names are on the High Commissioner's visitor-,' book were invited) .who had the opportunity of accepting the invitation did s:>. Any iover of tiovvei-s who has been to London will already know the glories of the Royal Botanic Oaiduis—the magnificent palm houses, ferneries and gardens, and the lake fringed with ruches. On : Monday an enormous marquee to accom'.module"many hundred guests was fitted up like a theatre, with boxes and a stage, and with bunches of flags under the names of each of the British Dominions overseas. A line concert was given of a thoroughly patriotic character, .-artists from I New " Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and j India taking paFt. Mr Arnold TroweJl, the Wellington 'cellist, represented New Zealand, and played .1 couple of his own cotnpositions,. a nocturne, and a piece called 'Menioiie,' aud Popper's •Tanutj telle' and ' Papillon.' Refreshments wore served in three huge marquees during the afternoon —Among Women Journalists.— On Tuesday night the Society of Women Journalists held a grand Coronation dinner at the Criterion Restaurant, at which.manyj noted novelists, playwrights, and jounial.tete, and ttveial guests Uciii overseas—-

mainly Canada—were present. Tho writer ' was the only New Zealander there, as far as could he" ascertained. Some 200 guests . sat.down to tables gaily garlanded in red, white, and blue, with groat vases of flowers in. the same cheery colors decorating the rooms, and festoons of bunting suspended from the ceilings. A band played during dinneT, and Later there were speeches, many long, dreary, and stod.gily Imperialistic", oth'eis full of brightness, lightness, 3 and wit. Mr Israel Zangwill was, as usual, " 7 a master in the latter division, and man--3 mred to press home many a thoughtful and 3 interesting truth coneevning modern-clay 4 ionrnatism, women suffrage, woman 6 inr I fluence in most things she ■undertakes, and 1 tho deterioration in black-and-white vvork t j in a manner that not even the most captious j opponent could resent. The journalism of t to-dav is becoming Americanised and 1 cheapened in lone, and far from the old • ideals, Mr Zangwill considers, though he > is generous enough to say that he thinks 1 women writers are not" responsible for that. "You are a strictly modern insti- \ tut ion." he eai-1. "and it is very probably too late for you to much improve the I trend of things." . Photography, Mr Zang--1 will says, is founding the death-knell of { tho fine old black-and-white work that used > to decorate the. best papers and magazines, - and in this recpect 'Punch' alone stands in its old place. Photography has hn- [ 1 pertinently rusher! in to record the most ( ' trivial actions of anyone considered in I 1 Irish society. In short" in these days, the - i Snapshot is" mightier than the sword. 1